Ive Got Your Number (Warner Bros.) (1934)

(Review ) “T’ve Got Your Number” Is Smashing New Comedy Film Story Reveals Fun, Romance and Thrills Behind Gigantic Telephone System action and melodramatic thrills in “I’ve Got Your Number,” Le“ and laughter are singularly well balanced with fast the new Warner Bros. picture which opened yesterday at the .... Theatre with the saucy Joan Blondel] in the stellar role. “T’ve Got Your Number’ presents an entertaining revelation of the romance and thrills that underlie the gigantic telephone system that honeycombs America and the world with its network of wires. And if anyone suspects that this industry is just a few million miles of cold wires, he is due to have his eyes opened with a startling jolt to the vivid coloring of its throbbing life as un folded on the scréen by this picture. In carving this story from the daily happenings of real life and painting them with the glow of pathos, tragedy and comedy, Warner Bros. again demonstrates its insight into human emotions and its capacity for scenting the novel in events of genuine human interest. Joan Blondell, in the role of a telephone operator, plugs in on the heart chords of every spectator when she wins to romance and love after harrowing adventure. Now changed from a blonde to a ravishing brunette, she is nevertheless the same wise-cracking, sophisticated Joan whose dominating personality gives life to every situation in which she appears. Pat O’Brien gives one of the best performances of his career as the swashbuckling trouble-shooter, as ready to tap a lady’s heart for love as he is the telephone wires in search of trouble. Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Eugene Pallette and Hobart Cavanaugh are as clever a quartette of comedians as Hollywood can boast, and furnish much of the hilarious comedy with which the film is studded. Gordon Westcott, the arch villain, who heads a gang of highbinders including Robert Ellis, Selmer Jackson and Tom Costello, is the instigator of the skullduggery that results in robbery, kidnaping and a_ spine tingling, pitched battle. Others in the cast who give notable performances are that veteran stage actor, Henry O’Neill, Renee Whitney, Wallis Clark, Douglas Cosgrove, Louise Beavers, Charles Wilson and Clay Clement. Although Director Ray Enright was given excellent material to work on in the sparkling story by Warren Duff and Sidney Sutherland and had a capable array of screen talent, he nevertheless deserves great credit for the way in which he has knitted the various elements of the theme into a compact and entertaining whole that moves rapidly from start to finish. To those who enjoy lively, upto-the-minute entertainment we can whole-heartedly recommend “ve Got Your Number.” Film Scene Is Shot With Joan Blondell Convalescing in Bed When Joan Blondell was unable to get to her studio to take a scene for a picture because she was just recuperating from an appendicitis operation, the studio went to her. While working in the Warner Bros. production, “I’ve Got Your Number,” which comes to the Seen. Phesenes Ones, Sule awas stricken with acute appendicitis, but went gamely on with her work until the picture was finished and then went to the hospital for an operation. Three weeks after the operation it was found necessary to remake one of the scenes. Blondell Comes to ...» Theatre Today With Telephone Film “l’ve Got Your Number,” the widely heralded Warner Bros. picture dealing with the romance of the telephone, is the feature attraction at the Theatre today. The screen play by Warren Duff and Sidney Sutherland pictures in sweeping panorama _ the vital activities of telephone employees in their contacts with the public, and with. each other. It dramatizes the colorful incidents of every-day life to the throbbing pulse of human emotions. ‘Lhe picture is said to touch on every phase of life behind the scenes of telephone operation, revealing its laughter and love, its tragedy and thrills. The story is in fast tempo and the dialogue unusually snappy with plenty of action and a great deal of suspense, winding up with a smashing climax in a terrific battle with a band of robbers and kidnapers. Joan Blondell heads a large and talented cast of players in the role of a telephone operator who is used as a cat’s paw by the crooks and lands in jail as their accomplice, only to be extricated by Pat O’Brien, who plays opposite her as a trouble shooter for the telephone company, a self-confident, swaggering person equally successful in smashing the hearts of fair ladies and _ gangster’s heads. Glenda Farrell, Eugene Pallette, Allen Jenkins and Hobart Cavanaugh, comedians par excellence, supply much of the comedy angle, aided and abetted by Miss Blondell and O’Brien. Gordon Westcott is the master mind of the confidence men while others in the cast include such sterling actors as Henry O’Neill, Renee Whitney, Wallis Clark, Robert Ellis, Charles Wilson and Clay Clement. Ray Enright directed. Joan was at home, convalescing. The doctor was consulted. Joan, he stated positively, would not be permitted to get out of bed for another week and it would be at least two more before he would sanction her going to the studio. Could Joan, he was asked, stand the strain of having the scene made in her own room, provided she did not have to get out of bed. “She could stand it if it didn’t take too long and make _ her nervous,” said the doctor. “But,” he asked with a quizzical raise of his eyebrow, “how are you going to take a scene for a picture with a girl in bed?” It just happened that it was that kind of a scene. It is Joan’s and Pat O’Brien’s honeymoon eve. They have just got into bed when Pat’s fellow telephone trouble men decided to have some fun with the bridal pair. They break in on them and tear out the phone, using a blow-torch and making a terrific din. Allen Jenkins getting an earful from his bride of a few days and it looks as though he doesn’t like it. They’re on the set of “I’ve Got Your Number,” comedy hit, now at the Strand Mat No. 7—20c Pat O’Brien Geis Big Kick Out of Battle For Telephone Film Pat O’Brien is most rabid fight fan. He buys his tickets for the weekly scraps in the film capitol by the season not the week, and his Irish face, with the ever-present cigar stuck in his mouth, is as much a part of the atmosphere as the ring-posts. Pat’s record for consecutive attendance ran into 57 weeks and apparently was doomed _ for a record run. Only old age or the building being razed by fire would keep the bug out of seat 6, row A. But —Pat’s record was broken while he was making his latest film, “I’ve Got Your Number,” the Warner Bros. picture which comes to the... . Theatre onsey . ct The reason was that Pat was busily engaged in swapping blows himself. The absence was natural, for if there’s one thing an Irishman likes better than to watch a good brawl, it is to mix in it himself. O’Brien’s scrap was part of the script and much as the star hated to miss his weekly bouts, these was no way out. So the fights went on, and Pat, with Allen Jenkins, Eugene Pallette, and the rest of the “trouble-shooting” cast of the telephone film traded wallops in a dark alley with a gang of screen thugs, including Gordon Westcott, Robert Ellis, Selmer Jackson and Tom Costello. All were considerably bruised but Pat was happy. The fight is the smashing climax to a picture that combines melodramatic thrills with hilarious comedy. Joan Blondell has the leading role, while Glenda Farrell and Renee Whitney have important feminine parts. Hollywood's Pat O’Brien Mat No. 1—10c Ray Enright directed the picture from the screen play by Warren Duff and Sidney Sutherland. So Director Ray Enright, with O’Brien, Allen Jenkins, Eugene Pallette and Hobart Cavanaugh, who appear in the scene, accompanied by electricians and props went to Joan’s home to take the shot. Joan’s own husband, George Barnes, an ace Cameraman, photographed the scene. The re-take was made in twenty minutes and Joan was none the worse for it. The picture is a thrilling drama with plenty of comedy, which reveals the human side of telephone operation, based on the story by Warren Duff and Sidney Sutherland, ace Warner authors. Telephone Heroine Technical Adviser for Telephone Film Mrs. Grayce Tarrant, of Culver City, a friend of Joan Blondell, who has the stellar role in the Warner Bros. picture, “I’ve Got Your Number,” now showing at the ... . Theatre, furnished Director Ray Enright and the players with invaluable information in regard to the technical details of the production which deals with the inside workings of a telephone office. Mrs. Tarrant is considered by the Southern California Telephone Company to be its most efficient operator. She coached Joan in her role of telephone operator as well as advising as to the correctness of the atmosphere. She is the winner of the Theodore N. Vail medal in 1933 for noteworthy public service, the highest honor which can be awarded to a telephone employee. On November 3rd Mrs. Tarrant, while on duty, was solely instrumental in saving the life of a woman who collapsed while tele-, phoning. Her citation reads “for initiative, persistence and prompt and intelligent action.” Joan Blondell confesses that she hadn’t the slightest conception of the duties of a telephone operator before starting to rehearse for “Pye Got Your Number.” Now that she is fairly adapt at the intricacies of a switchboard, she finds that she has taken a keen liking to it, much to her surprise. Pat O’Brien plays opposite Joan in the picture, which combines hilarious comedy with melodramatic thrills. Others in the cast include Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Eugene Pallette, Gordon Westcott, Henry O’Neill, Hobart Cavanaugh and Renee Whitney. O’Brien, Goached by O'Neill on Stage, Now Returns Compliment Henry O’Neill, a recent Hollywood importation from the New York stage, cast bread upon the theatrical waters a few years ago and recently was repaid many times over for his act. At the time O’Neill was given the role of a cop in the Broadway play, “You Can’t Win.” At the initial rehearsal he met a newcomer to the great white way who was to play the part of his younger brother. “Hank, this is Pat O’Brien,” the stage director, and the two immediately struck up a firm friendship. O’Neill during the course of the season was able to give the young Irish lad a few valuable pointers which he had picked up in_ his greater experience. And Pat took the advice and profited by it. O’Neill stayed on to become a fixture on the Broadway horizon, while O’Brien after a number of stage successes heeded Hollywood’s call and soon became one of its outstanding stars. Then Henry O’Neill came _ to Hollywood under contract to Warner Bros. and was cast with O’Brien and Joan Blondell in “ve Got Your Number,” a picture now showing at the.... Theatre. “Pat, this is Henry O’Neill,” introduced Director Ray Enright, not knowing that their’s was a friendship of long standing. Thus the tables were turned, and the former pupil became the teacher. For there are many tricks to the movie trade which O’Brien had picked up and now passed on to O’Neill. And the latter, although one of Broadway’s best, was glad to be coached in movie technique. “T’ve Got Your Number” combines hilarious situations with melodramatic thrills in its revelation of the inner workings of a telephone office. The supporting cast includes Glenda _ Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Eugene Pallette, Gordon Westcott and Hobart Cavanaugh. A NUMEROLOGIST ADVISES JOAN There’s nothing unwise in Joan Blondell’s proposal to change her name to Joan Barnes, as far as numerology is concerned. So says Alice Irvine Caskey, Kansas City numerologist. ‘According to the science of numbers, such a change is likely to be extremely favorable,”’ Mrs. Caskey declares. Joan is appearing in the Warner Bros. picture, “I’ve Got Your Number,” at the « Theatre—but she is sill. billed:-aa Jon’ Bland Pat O’Brien and Allen Jenkins in “I’ve Got Your Number” Mat No. d—20¢ RASTA TOLER NIE A OPCS TEESE OE SLES DE IEE TEES SEA AEE LENE ELLE IES ESE AIELLO LIED ALLEL LENE LE IEE LIEEL LAL LAEL LES OIE ELA OLED LS LEON RGD EE IE LEAL ESATO RELL GEENA AE EIELY. BALES OPPRESSED EGS ELE DLP REIGATE ELS MOO EDEL EOP A ALE ILIA EE CS AER EAE Ra nee ee! Page Twelve